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JIM Norton will never forget the way he was turned down for a photo by Robert De Niro. “It was really embarrassing,” the comic said at a recent taping of LateNet with Ray Ellin at Gotham Comedy Club. “I was so star-struck I actually tapped his arm, which is never how one man should ever get the attention of another man. It actually would have been more masculine to throw soap down in front of him and say, ‘Oh, let me get that . . .’ ” Norton has a best-selling book out and a new comedy special, “Monster Rain,” on HBO, but the humiliating blow-off still hurts, reports The Post’s Mandy Stadtmiller. “I was like, ‘Can I get a picture?’ and he was like, ‘No.’ ”